Joshua Tree News

John Bachar, a legendary figure in the obscure and close-knit world of rock climbing, died July 5 after a fall near his home in Mammoth Lakes, Calif.

This week on The Marketplace of Ideas , Colin Marshall talks to David Sheppard, musician, music journalist and author of On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno .

Singer and songwriter Tim Easton comes from Ohio, but has traveled extensively since leaving his college-era bands in 1998 to pursue a solo career.

An Indio hospital is making LifeStream its exclusive blood provider. John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital officials announced late June that the hospital has signed a contract with LifeStream to be their exclusive blood provider.

An animal shelter nearly had to close its doors in these tough times until a medical marijuana dispensary came to the rescue.

Title: CALIF. COUNTY ORDERED TO LET CHURCH USE LIBRARY A federal judge has ordered a Contra Costa County library to open its doors to a religious group.

It's amazing how technology can help a business lather up opportunities for growth.

A 30-year-old Joshua Tree motorcyclist was killed yesterday when he crashed his blue and silver 2006 Yamaha along a major street in that desert town, according to San Bernardino County coroner's officials.

A motorcyclist was killed Thursday after crashing into a dirt berm and being thrown 150 feet into a fence, officials said.

The common indicators of success are nowhere to be seen on Cracker's resume. The commercial props that it enjoyed are a few pages back, back to the early- to mid-90s and smart-aleck hits such as 'Teen Angst ,' 'Low' and 'I Hate My Generation.' Oh, there is a festival named for the band, which it shares with the like-minded aging esoterics, Camper ...

A new Google Maps feature allows you to right click on a location in a Google Map, choose "What's here" from the bottom of the menu, and get an address and a list of businesses at/near that point.

To describe a Spoonfed Tribe gathering would take too many words, talking too small to measure what is gained by the actual experience of it all.

Two men died and two women were critically injured in a suspected drunk-driving crash Wednesday at Joshua Tree National Park.

A woman found lying outside an overturned vehicle is among two people killed during a pre-dawn traffic accident in Joshua Tree, according to the California Highway Patrol Web site.

One summer in the 1920s on the lower flanks of Piute Mountain, an Indian woman sat and carefully wove a basket from native materials of deergrass, willow, Joshua Tree root and others.

Want a chance to hear the music of superstar acts No Doubt, U2, and Depeche Mode in a single day without going broke? Wish you could have heard the music of classic ska-pop band Sublime live before its lead singer Brad Nowell overdosed on heroin back in 1996? On Sunday, longtime Old Pasadena hotspot Villa SORRISO offers a chance to do both by ...

National parks across the country -- including Joshua Tree, Death Valley, Yosemite and Grand Canyon -- will be open for free three weekends this summer.

Blame Gilda Radner. The late Saturday Night Live icon is the reason Peaches crafts irreverent, provocative and often humorous avant-rock. "Gilda is such an inspiration for me," Peaches said while calling from Joshua Tree, Calif.

If you're looking to save a little money on your summer getaway, the head of the nation's Interior Department has come up with a perfect plan for you.

The news that Whitney Houston is releasing her first studio album in six years on Sept.